BULLDOZERS are set to roll into a historic Soho street after a massive redevelopment was given the green light, despite a string of objections claiming it would “sanitise” the area.Soho Estates was given permission to demolish parts of Walkers Court, Peter Street and Brewer Street to create new nightclubs, offices and a restaurant. The narrow […]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Paula Nicol from the English Collective of Prostitutes, which campaigns for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalise sex workers and their families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages.I have worked as a sex worker in at least ten different flats in Soho […]
Stop the raids, stop the evictions. Save historic Soho from greedy developers! The first closure order against a sex worker flat was granted in court today. Help us stop the others so Soho is not handed over to developers. An application for a closure order against 27 Peters Street included claims that women are being […]
Don’t Rip the Heart out of Soho!Stop the raids, stop the evictions.Stop the Walkers Court development. Please take action now: Before Tuesday 10 December, object to the Walkers Court development to Planning Committee chair Robert Davis rdavis@westminster.gov.uk. Join us at the planning committee meeting, Tues 10 December 6.30pm at City Hall, 17th floor, 64 […]
MORE than 200 police officers clad in riot-gear swooped on dozens of businesses in Soho on Wednesday in an attempt to stifle the trade of stolen goods.Scotland Yard said they targeted brothels, clubs, sex shops and a taxi company after gathering evidence from 18 months of undercover operations.They said they had compiled evidence linking some […]
Over 25 sex workers’ flats in Soho, Central London were raided by police last night (4 December). Police broke down doors, slapped closure notices on the doors of premises and threw women out onto the street. Some immigrant women were taken into custody on the pretext that they may be victims of trafficking, despite their […]
The French parliament has been discussing the criminalisation of sex workers’ clients and will be voting on it tomorrow. The proposals are based on the ‘Swedish model’, and claim to decriminalise the women while criminalising the men.The English Collective of Prostitutes campaigns for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and together with STRASS, the French sex workers’ […]
A controversial move by French lawmakers to prohibit prostitution by targeting those who pay for sex will put the lives of prostitutes in danger, organizations representing sex workers told FRANCE 24 this week. On Tuesday a show of hands from members at the National Assembly in Paris was enough to set in motion a move […]
Las prostitutas necesitan mejores aliados que los hombres franceses centrados en sus propias libertades sexuales – pero, demasiado a menudo, las feministas sólo hacen sus vidas más difíciles Selma James Los 343 hombres intelectuales franceses que firmaron una declaración —“No toques a mi puta”(1)— defendiendo su derecho a comprar servicios sexuales han enfurecido a las mujeres […]